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Once life is discovered outside outside the realm of earth...
by undercover inhow will it affect you?.
aa's thread on scientist's "creating" life got me to thinking about how people would react if life was discovered on other planets or solar systems.
the movie "contact" explored that some along with how faith and science combat but yet complement each other.. would life on other planets pretty much destroy much of earth's religious myths?
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How did they dare?
by Narkissos in.
this is a very simple question which came to my mind shortly after i broke free from the jw/fundamentalistic mindset.. assuming (1) that "god" didn't do and say everything that the bible texts record him doing and saying, and (2) that the writers were not cynical, machiavelical atheists forging a "god" for the sole purpose of mind control, but really believed in their "god", the question is: how did they dare make their "god" speak and act?.
this question, of course, is pointless to you if you believe (1) that "god" did do and say everything that the bible texts record him doing and saying, or (2) that the writers were cynical, machiavelical atheists forging a "god" for the sole purpose of mind control.. but if you are somewhere in between, as many of us are (i think), this is a fascinating question which can help us get a better idea of the true nature of faith, between passive "fear of god" and the audacity of literary creation.. any taker?
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Police caution woman for breastfeeding in public!
by nicolaou ini just watched the local bbc news and there was a story about a woman who'd fed her baby while sitting on a public bench.
she finished and was on her way when a police car drew up beside her and asked her to stop.
there had been a complaint.
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For thirty three years we walked the same path...and now he's gone.
by Gill inmy little friend, is gone.
for thirty three years we walked, he flew actually and then when too old, he walked, but we walked the same path.
yesterday morning i found he had died in the night and now....well, now all the sadness is here.
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The Bible With Sources Revealed - by Richard Elliott Friedman
by VM44 inthis shows the importance of knowing bible languages in order to understand the structure of the bible writings.
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/139/story_13986.html.
the editorial team behind the bible .
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Tactics to sway my family from the JW organization
by findingmyway ini've been thinking lately about how i can get my family out of the organization.
my dad was once an elder (has been df'd once).
my mom was once a regular pioneer (hasn't in over 10 years and doesn't even work).
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Jehovah told man to kill, court hears!
by Atlantis inhttp://www.dailypost.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3660186&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection= local news email story print story .
jehovah told man to kill, court hears.
by abigail caspari in rotorua .
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will the earth be destroyed.
by ajie ini am a present studying the book what does the bible really teach,and am unable to counter the bit where they say the new earth is people and not the literal earth,ive pointed out scriptures that say it will be burned up e.c.t.but the guy relates it to noahs day when the earth was not literal earth that was destroyed but the wicked people,he says this is the same with the new world to come,it is the rightouse people, at the moment we agree to disagree but does anyone know a good way to counter this argument.though doing a goggle search on the subject it seems to me that christians have all sorts of veiws on the subject which only leaves me more confused.
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ok i think i finally have made a decision
by Cordelia insoooooo any of you thats been following my threads thanks (and poor u) i have changed my mind so many times.
i have finally decided that i must stop trying to get reinstated, basically i got dfed 9 months ago had a boyfriend i felt i loved, was married tho still to my hubby who is only just starting to divorce me, (hes waited coz he keeps saying we could try again for the sake of our daughter but he would expect me to be completly in the 'truth') i hid the bf from my family coz they were so heartbroke and i decided to please them i would get reinstated and then fade, but as time went on i realised that wasnt an option as with a family like mine it would be so hard to do, plus there was the bf still hidden poor guy, anyway we spilt up several times, i was a complete physco i kept blaming him for everything,.
anyway last month i put my letter of reinstatement in and sat there scared stiff that they would reinstate me (as that would defo mean the end of the bf) they didnt reinstate me, and i blamed the bf and we spilt for good;.
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Armageddon falls on what day of the week?
by JH in.
i say tuesday.................because it sounds like doomsday